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Oh, but that money never came to Verres. What does that defence mean? is that
asserted in this case, or only put out as a feeler? For to me it is quite a new
light. Verres set up the accusers; Verres summoned the brother to appear before him;
Verres heard the cause; Verres gave sentence. A vast sum was paid; they who paid it
gained the cause; and you argue in defence “that money was not paid to
Verres.” I can help you; my witnesses too say the same thing; they say
they paid it to Volcatius. How did Volcatius acquire so much power as to get four
hundred thousand sesterces from two men? Would any one
have given Volcatius, if he had come on his own account, one half-farthing? Let him
come now, let him try; no one will receive him in his house. But I say more; I
accuse you of having received forty millions of sesterces contrary to law; and I deny that you have ever accounted for
one farthing of that money; but when money was paid for your decrees, for your
orders, for your decisions, the point to be inquired into was not into whose hand it
was paid, but by whose oppression it was extorted.

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